Nick Clegg set to exact steep price for backing EU referendum

Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:22

Liberal Democrats are preparing to exact a steep price to allow the Conservatives a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU, the Financial Times has learnt. The Lib Dems’ conditions are expected to include allowing EU nationals living in the UK to vote in the ballot.

Nick Clegg, the party leader, on Monday refused to rule out backing a 2017 referendum, as promised by David Cameron, who started the general election campaign on Monday with what could be his final audience with the Queen as prime minister.

Polls To Decide UK’s Future in European Union: Analysts Say Britain’s Influence in EU Is Diminishing

Tuesday, 31 March 2015 20:05

Britain’s May 7 polls are watched with interest across Europe, where many parties have EU as a poll plank for seeking votes. From Prime Minister David Cameron to Euro sceptic UKIP leader Nigel Farage, the issue of U.K’s continued stay in EU is a big ticket election theme.

City Eye: Facts on a plate: our population is at least 77 million

Monday, 08 December 2014 16:50

It is the statistic that dare not speak its name, though eventually it must. It has huge ramifications for the civil and political life of this country, the health of the equity markets and, most immediately, the residential property market. So don't forget you read it here first: the population of the UK is presently somewhere between 77 and 80 million.

Forget the scaremongering that so often accompanies debate about Britain’s EU membership. Leaving the European Union could be a win-win for the UK. We could have more international influence, create more trade and jobs, and regain sovereign control over our own laws and borders.

Betrayed - All you need to know

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Italy's Northern League calls for EU to be 'demolished'

Friday, 12 December 2014 01:02

In a European political landscape increasingly populated with insurgent, anti-system parties, Italy's extremist Northern League is the latest to profit from a groundswell of hostility to the European Union.

The League's 41-year-old leader, Matteo Salvini calls the euro a "criminal currency" and wants to demolish the Brussels consensus that has dominated European politics since the end of World War Two.